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2018-2019 Graduate Catalog ARCHIVED CATALOG: CONTENT MAY NOT BE CURRENT. USE THE DROP DOWN ABOVE TO ACCESS THE CURRENT CATALOG.
Courses - Business Administration
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Business Administration Programs
EMBA 701 - Leadership and Team Effectiveness
Credits 2
Examines the role of leaders, why organizations use team-based processes, when to use teams, and how to organize teams. Teaches effective teamwork, team management and leadership. Includes: how to develop an effective team leader and member, the nature of organizational support appropriate for high performance and working with diverse teams.
Prerequisites
Admission to the Executive MBA Program and approval of the Dean’s Office.
EMBA 702 - Laws, Regulations and Ethics
Credits 2
Explores legal, regulatory and ethical issues which affect managers in their practice of business. Legal systems, philosophical approaches and practical applications.
Prerequisites
Admission to the Executive MBA Program and approval of the Dean’s Office.
EMBA 703 - Microeconomic Analysis for Business Decision Making
Credits 2
Uses economic analysis to understand crucial topics in business decision making, including: consumer behavior; supply and demand; choosing to input to minimize cost; product differentiation; firm behavior under different types of competition; pricing and advertising strategies; risk, uncertainty, and imperfect information; government regulation; labor issues; and mergers.
Prerequisites
Admission to the Executive MBA Program and approval of the Dean’s Office.
EMBA 704 - Technology Innovation: Theory and Practice
Credits 2
This course provides an in-depth look into the potential impacts of existing and emerging information technologies on contemporary business models through lecture, case analysis, and interaction with industry guest speakers. Potential impacts for both new and existing businesses will be discussed.
Prerequisites
Admission to the Executive MBA Program and approval of the Dean’s Office.
EMBA 705 - Applied Statistics
Credits 2
Effective business research and decision making with the aid of statistical analysis. Hands-on experience with computer spreadsheet software. Covers how to find, manage, analyze, interpret, and effectively present actual business and economic data.
Prerequisites
Admission to the Executive MBA Program and approval of the Dean’s Office.
EMBA 706 - Organizational Theory: Strategy Implementation Processes
Credits 2
Effective implementation of organizational decisions and strategies. Draws on scholarly research in sociology, psychology, anthropology, and a wide variety of related social sciences. Executive-level overview of organization theory.
Prerequisites
Admission to the Executive MBA Program and approval of the Dean’s Office.
EMBA 707 - Financial Accounting for Managers
Credits 2
Examines process which determines economic impact of organization activities. Performance measurement, recording, and reporting. Focuses on methods and procedures that lend to the preparation of financial statements and reports to external audiences.
Prerequisites
Admission to the Executive MBA Program and approval of the Dean’s Office.
EMBA 708 - Global and Macroeconomic Environment for Business
Credits 2
Provides an understanding of macroeconomic conditions that impact firms operating in the global economy. Topics include aggregate demand and national income; business cycles; inflation; unemployment; interest rates; exchange rates; international trade in goods and capital; and fiscal and monetary government policies.
Prerequisites
Admission to the Executive MBA Program and approval of the Dean’s Office.
EMBA 709 - Organization Behavior
Credits 2
Important concepts and applications in management including motivation, leadership, group dynamics, organization design, decision making, strategic planning and organizational change. Special emphasis on analyzing leadership skills of others and improving leadership potential of participants.
Prerequisites
Admission to the Executive MBA Program and approval of the Dean’s Office.
EMBA 710 - Business Finance
Credits 2
Examines the role of financial management in creating firm value. Covers fundamental business finance topics and the application of basic finance concepts for decision making in a business environment. Taught from the perspective of a senior-level manager.
Prerequisites
Admission to the Executive MBA Program and approval of the Dean’s Office.
EMBA 711 - Managerial Accounting
Credits 2
Focus on the use and potential misuse of accounting data by managers. Provides a foundation for identifying and analyzing decision alternatives and evaluating success in accomplishing organizational goals.
Prerequisites
Admission to the Executive MBA Program and approval of the Dean’s Office.
EMBA 712 - Seminar in Financial Management
Credits 2
Covers major financial management issues pertaining to a firm’s operations. Taught primarily through case discussions and use of spreadsheets in financial analysis.
Prerequisites
Admission to the Executive MBA Program and approval of the Dean’s Office.
EMBA 713 - Principles of Marketing Strategy
Credits 2
Designed to introduce executives to conceptual and analytical frameworks that inform the development and execution of marketing strategy. A blend of readings and case studies will be used to build fundamental knowledge of the discipline and simulate marketing strategy decision making.
Prerequisites
Admission to the Executive MBA Program and approval of the Dean’s Office.
EMBA 714 - Management of Entrepreneurial Organizations
Credits 3
Examines issues involved in developing and managing entrepreneurial organizations. Topics include: why some firms fail while others succeed; stages of growth and organization effectiveness; and management systems in an entrepreneurial context, such as strategic planning, organizational development, and leadership.
Prerequisites
Admission to the Executive MBA Program and approval of the Dean’s Office.
EMBA 715 - Strategic Management: Business Strategy and Corporate Strategy
Credits 3
Explores business strategies (cost leadership, differentiation, tacit collusion, and strategic alliances) and corporate strategies (vertical integration, diversification, merger and acquisition, and globalization strategies.) Economic theories of competition and cooperation. Includes case studies of firms which have successfully or unsuccessfully employed a variety of strategies.
Prerequisites
Admission to the Executive MBA Program and approval of the Dean’s Office.
EMBA 716 - International Business
Credits 2
Problems and opportunities of business in a global context. Examines international economic, institutional, cultural and legal differences and analyzes their impact on business decisions including: product design, production and marketing, human resources strategy; investment analysis; financial strategy and risk management. May be repeated to a maximum of two credits.
Prerequisites
Admission to the Executive MBA Program and approval of the Dean’s Office.
EMBA 717 - Negotiations and Conflict Resolution
Credits 3
Examines the nature of conflict and the negotiation process as a tool for managing conflict. Includes preparing negotiations, negotiating strategies and tactics, organizing negotiating teams, coalition bargaining, the importance of individual difference variables, international issues, the role of third parties, and ethical issues.
Prerequisites
Admission to the Executive MBA Program and approval of the Dean’s Office.
EMBA 718 - Executive Decision Making: Strategy Formation Processes
Credits 2
Explores classic cases and texts on organizational decision-making processes in order to improve participants’ capacities to contribute to the effective manufacturing of organizational decisions.
Prerequisites
Admission to the Executive MBA Program and approval of the Dean’s Office.
EMBA 719 - Executive Assessment and Development
Credits 1
Helps participants to be more capable of understanding and leading change. Includes framework of leadership competency grounded in paradoxical thinking. Leadership concepts presented. Leadership assessment completed for each participant.
Prerequisites
Admission to the Executive MBA Program and approval of the Dean’s Office.
EMBA 720 - International Seminar
Credits 3
Includes problems and environment of international business, which require integrative analysis of these problems. Under faculty supervision, students visit selected international enterprises operating outside the United States and produce a written analysis including specific recommendations. May be repeated to a maximum of three credits.
Prerequisites
Admission to the Executive MBA Program and approval of the Dean’s Office.
EMBA 722 - Service Operations
Credits 2
This course introduces students to the strategies, concepts, practices, and challenges of successful service operations. This course prepares students to identify and apply appropriate strategies and management processes to ensure efficient, effective, and quality oriented service operations, while achieving operational competitiveness.
Prerequisites
Admission to EMBA program and approval of Dean’s Office.
EMBA 723 - Applied Strategic Marketing
Credits 2
Designed to give executives the opportunity to apply marketing concepts in an effort to analyze, initiate and change marketing actions. Provides the knowledge and tools needed to analyze marketing problems.
Prerequisites
EMBA 713
EMBA 725 - Corporate Risk Management
Credits 3
This course will focus on the fundamentals of corporate risk management from a strategic decision-making perspective. The course emphasizes how exposures to strategic, operational, financial and pure risks affect the firm, and how risk exposures can be re-engineered to enhance shareholder value. Topics further include the major sources of risk, the measurement of risk exposures, methods, and strategies of managing and controlling risk.
Prerequisites
MBA 741 - Internship
Credits 3
Supervised practical experience with a participating local enterprise or government agency, culminating in a written report.
Prerequisites
Completion of 12 MBA credits and approval of the Director of the MBA Programs. Minimum GPA 3.0
MBA 751 - Independent Study
Credits 1 - 3
Independent study of a topic relevant to the practice of business under supervision of a faculty advisor.
Prerequisites
Completion of 12 MBA credits and approval of the Director of the MBA Programs. Minimum GPA 3.0.
MBA 761 - Accounting for Managers
Credits 3
Fundamentals of financial and managerial accounting. Topics include accounting’s conceptual framework, preparation and analysis of financial statements, current topics in financial reporting, ethical and legal responsibilities in financial reporting, cost-volume-profit analysis, tactical decision making, budgeting and accounting for management control.
Formerly
MBA 709.
Prerequisites
Admission to MBA Program or approval of the Director of MBA Programs.
MBA 763 - Leadership, Teams, and Individuals
Credits 3
Overview of research and theory on organizational behavior with emphasis on the skills required for managerial effectiveness in modern complex organizations including motivating and leading employees, developing effective teams, and managerial communication responsibilities.
Formerly
MBA 707
Prerequisites
Admission to MBA Program or approval of the Director of MBA Programs.
MBA 765 - Financial Decision Making
Credits 3
Focuses on corporate financial management, including cash flow planning, capital budgeting, security valuation, and financing decisions. Includes the concepts of market efficiency and optimal capital structure. Provides useful set of tools to improve the efficiency of business and personal financial decisions.
Formerly
MBA 711.
Prerequisites
admission to M.B.A. program, or approval of the Director of MBA Programs.
MBA 767 - Market Opportunity Analysis
Credits 3
Theory and practice of marketing fundaments applied to the market opportunity analysis. Focus on the marketing concept, planning, internal analysis, industry analysis, customer analysis, segmentation, competitive strategies and strategy formulation, product and pricing decision, positioning, forecasting, and profitability of opportunities.
Prerequisites
Admission to the MBA program, NVM Certificate program or approval of the Director of MBA programs.
MBA 769 - Applied Economic Analysis
Credits 3
Intensive application of the principles of microeconomic theory to business management problems. Presumes no previous knowledge of economics but moves rapidly to a thorough understanding of the tools of price theory. Topics include scarcity, choice, supply, demand, production, cost, competition, monopoly, present value and decision-making under risk.
Prerequisites
Admission to MBA Program or approval of the Director of MBA Programs.
MBA 771 - Law and Ethics
Credits 3
Deals with legal, regulatory and ethical environments of business. Provides foundation for recognizing and analyzing legal and ethical issues facing managers. Case studies applying both legal and ethical analysis featured.
Prerequisites
Admission to MBA Program or approval of the Director of MBA Programs.
MBA 773 - Managing Information
Credits 3
Overview of contemporary information systems and technology issues. Technical, behavioral, organizational and competitive perspectives reviewed. Issues related to impact of information systems on organizational processes and work practices. Information systems strategies, technology implementation and systems analysis and design.
Formerly
MBA 730.
Prerequisites
Admission to the MBA program or approval of the Director of MBA Programs.
MBA 775 - Data Modeling and Analysis
Credits 3
Intensive seminar/workshop applying statistical analysis to topics and problems encountered by business managers. Presumes no previous exposure to statistics but moves rapidly to the mastery of statistical analysis tools available on spreadsheet software. Topics include descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, simple regression and multiple regression.
Formerly
MBA 702.
Prerequisites
Admission to MBA Program or approval of the Director of MBA Programs.
MBA 779 - Managing Global Supply Chains
Credits 3
The study of strategic relationships necessary for supply chain management including the integration of the key value-adding activities across a global network of firms that produce raw materials, transform them into intermediate and then end products, and finally distribute these to end users . Topics include purchasing and supplier relationships, inventory and quality management, distribution, customer relationship management, service response logistics, and future trends in supply chain management from a global perspective.
Formerly
MBA 720.
Prerequisites
Admission to the MBA program or approval of the Director of MBA Programs.
MBA 785 - Global Business
Credits 3
Problems and Opportunities of business in a global context. Examines economic, social, political, monetary, and cultural issues faced by companies involved in international business and analyzes their effect on business decisions. Development of a framework for the preparation and implementation of business plans in a global context.
Prerequisites
Admission to the MBA program or approval of the Director of MBA Programs.
MBA 787 - Strategic Management
Credits 3
Integrates knowledge from specialized functional courses into a CEO perspective. Moves beyond a repertoire of generic strategies toward the formation of unique, firm specific strategies. Builds effective strategies in complex organizational contexts.
Prerequisites
To be taken during the student’s final year.
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